“The NYPD will not participate as immigration enforcement agents
because we have, for decades, built a close working relationship with immigrant
communities,” de Blasio said. “Our police force is not going to be out there
knocking on people’s door and it is not going to share information about
people’s documentation status with the federal authorities.”

According to de Blasio, who faces reelection in
November, more than half a million people in New Yorkare “undocumented” and a “vast majority don’t commit any crimes
whatsoever.”

City officials city and the NYPD officers will cooperate
with the feds only in immigration cases which involve “serious and violent
crimes,” he said. “In terms of the City of New York, we said the only area
where we cooperate is we have a law that delineates 170 serious and violent
crimes. If someone is convicted — not just accused, convicted of those crimes —
then we will work with ICE in terms of their deportation.”

According to the mayor’s office, ICE has submitted 80 “detainer”
requests to the NYPD in 2016. These “detainers” ask local police forces to hold
illegals who were arrested for other crimes until they can be transferred to
ICE for later repatriation. But only two inmates were transferred to ICE in
2016, and only because federal officials got a warrant or a subpoena from a
judge.

New York City is among one of the largest U.S. cities
that proudly labels itself as a “sanctuary city” for illegal aliens. Roughly
300 cities nationwide try to preserve illegals from deportation, partly because
businesses gain from a local population of illegals who serve as cheap
employees and as additional consumers.

Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated, de Blasio
has vowed to oppose any executive order regarding illegal immigration. He
is running for re-election this year, has used this hot topic to raise
campaign funds outside New York this weekend in Chicago and Florida.

“We do not believe the President’s executive order
related to immigration is legally clear or consistent,” de Blasio said,
downplaying the risk that the city would lose federal funds. “We think it can
be challenged effectively in court. If you look at it carefully, the only
resources that could be held back, even if it were to pass judicial muster, the
only resources that could held back would be from the NYPD, especially for
anti-terrorism.”

De Blasio added;

I think that puts the President’s administration in a box
of their own making. They claim they want to force us to change our ways, and
their penalty is going to take away anti-terrorism funding that protects the
biggest city in America and the number one terror target, I think that will end
up being untenable and unacceptable. But in the first instance, nothing has
been done to remove our funding so far, and if there ever were an attempt, we
would immediately go to court to stop it.

de Blasio also tried to blame a recent spike in
anti-Semitic vandalism on Trump and his advisors. “[Trump] unleashed these
forces and some of the people who are closest to these white supremacist
movement, and they are very intolerant of any religion that is not Christian,”
de Blasio said.

Steve Bannon is an example of a leader of the right-wing
that has fostered and supported these kind of movements and certainly given
them access to his media platform. If the President wants to draw a clear line,
he needs to make explicitly clear that he will not tolerate anti-Semitism,
racism, Islamophobia, anti-gay activities. I think it’s necessary to separate
from the people, who, unfortunately, like Steve Bannon, have aided and abetted
those kind of negative movements and to constantly make clear that he doesn’t
want the support of any people like that and he will condemn them.

Paul J. Browne
was a deputy commissioner for the New
York City Police Department (NYPD), a senior policy adviser for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), and is a VP at the University
of Notre Dame.

James J. Dunne
III is a trustee at the University
of Notre Dame, and a trustee at the NYU
Langone Medical Center.

Kenneth G. Langone
is the chair for the NYU Langone Medical
Center, a trustee at the Harlem
Children's Zone, a director emeritus for the Robin Hood Foundation, and an investor in Palantir Technologies Inc.

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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."- St. Augustine

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows." -

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."-- Edward Abbey

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."John Stuart Mill

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~~George Washington

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven for good intentions yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.~ C. S. Lewis

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